Half-Day Retreats at the Santa Fe Vipassana Sangha

May 25, 2025, 1:00 to 4:00 pm. Each hour will include a sitting meditation for 40 minutes and walking meditation for 20 minutes.

Other Retreats

Settling and Opening: A Journey Into Insight and Loving Kindness

A seven-day retreat with Brian Lesage and Diana Clark, sponsored by the Santa Fe Vipassana Center and the Albuquerque Insight Meditation Center at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Abbey in Pecos, New Mexico. Friday, September 12 to Friday, September 19, 2025

This retreat offers a gentle arc of practice, beginning with Insight meditation to help us settle into presence, quiet the mind, and establish a grounded awareness. As the retreat unfolds, we will transition into the heart-centered practice of Loving-Kindness (Mett?), allowing the steadiness of mindfulness to support the opening of the heart.

Through this natural progression from settling into stillness to opening into warmth, we’ll explore how awareness and kindness together can nourish inner peace, compassion, and freedom.

Held in silence, the retreat includes daily meditation instruction, Dharma talks, and practice discussions with the teachers. Suitable for both beginning and experienced meditators, this retreat invites a deepening of practice and a softening of the heart.

When registration is full, you will be placed on a waiting list.

View the program and get a registration link here.

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Regional Vipassana retreats will be posted on the web sites of our neighbor sanghas. See Other Sanghas and Retreat Centers for a list of regional Vipassana sanghas.